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ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's Combination Boogie.

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Billy Gibbons
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 16
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Houston
Texas
BFG
Reverend Willie G
William Frederick Gibbons
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Boogie
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Hopkins
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Shakes

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